Chris Barber

[billfromnorthwales]

No long stretches on this forum, John.

The Venn diagram of Peel and everything else in the world, has many unions and intersections, so I will give that one a listen.

Is it still on iPlayer and what is it called?

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "JT GRAY" <jt.gray@...> wrote:
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> Might seem a long stretch to our John, but I recorded both episodes of the recent programmes about Chris Barber on Radio 2, and have just been listening to the first one.  Some familiar themes - an escape from post-war austerity; a schoolboy spending his bus fare to buy records; having to seek out shops that sold them because jazz was still an underground scene; enthusiasts wanting to play the music for themselves regardless of how well, or how badly they could actually play.  And Barber himself was a pioneer with far reaching influence - from his band came Lonnie Donegan, and so skiffle, and then Alexis Korner, and so the British blues scene, the Stones, the Yardbirds et al.
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> And so endeth the (history) lesson.
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> John Gray
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